{"id":28525,"date":"2013-08-10T09:13:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T05:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=28525"},"modified":"2013-08-10T09:13:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T05:13:05","slug":"thieves-in-venezuela-hacking-off-womens-ponytails-in-street-to-sell-on-as-500-hair-extensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=28525","title":{"rendered":"Thieves in Venezuela hacking off women&#8217;s ponytails in street to sell on as $500 hair extensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Robbers-in-the-Venezuelan-city-of-Maracaibo-are-now-targeting-womens-hair1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28522\" alt=\"Robbers in the Venezuelan city of Maracaibo are now targeting women's hair1\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Robbers-in-the-Venezuelan-city-of-Maracaibo-are-now-targeting-womens-hair1.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Robbers-in-the-Venezuelan-city-of-Maracaibo-are-now-targeting-womens-hair1.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Robbers-in-the-Venezuelan-city-of-Maracaibo-are-now-targeting-womens-hair1-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Robbers-in-the-Venezuelan-city-of-Maracaibo-are-now-targeting-womens-hair1-441x300.jpg 441w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>While most people worry about being mugged for their phones or handbags, criminals in the Venezuelan city of Maracaibo have their sights set on something a little more unusual.<\/p>\n<p>According to local news sources, a gang known as the &#8216;piranhas&#8217; is stealing women\u2019s hair at gun point.<\/p>\n<p>The criminals then sell on the stolen locks to salons for use as hair extensions, according to Venezuelan digital newspaper <a href=\"http:\/\/informe21.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Informe 21<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Robbers target women with long, straight hair as this type is most in demand for extensions. They force the women tie their hair into ponytails then hack them off.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a profitable business: local hairdressers can charge clients up to \u00a3322 ($500) to weave real locks into their hair, according to CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/globovision.com\/seccion\/nacionales\/\" target=\"_blank\">Globovision news<\/a>, Jhonatan Morales, a stylist in Venezuela, explained that hair extensions are hot property &#8211; demand for the service has increased by 30 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>He said that his salon refuses to buy the hair from street vendors because they don&#8217;t know where it comes from.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor of Maracaibo, Eveling de Rosales, has addressed the issue, saying that security is being upped and that &#8216;men and women were being placed to guard and avoid this happening again.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While most people worry about being mugged for their phones or handbags, criminals in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,224,155,137],"tags":[941],"class_list":["post-28525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-venezuela","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}